I hold a PhD in English Literature, specialising in Reader-Response Theory, which was awarded in 2019 by University College Cork. My first book, Refiguring Reader-Response, is due out with University of Nebraska Press in 2027.
I am currently an associated researcher at Ghent University, where I recently finished a three-year FWO postdoctoral project on the concept of seriousness in science fiction's discursive cultures.
I will soon begin an International Fellowship at the KWI Essen, where I am developing a new project on awe emotions in science fiction and its reception.
My research is broadly covered by the keywords of science/speculative fiction; genre theory; general critical theory; reader-response; contemporary literature; narratology; ecocriticism; embodiment and affect; and postmodernism.
